India, Feb. 20 -- An Indian-origin YouTuber's cold email to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was successful in making the tech boss appear on his podcast. Dwarkesh Patel reached out to Nadella with a very simple request: "Wanna come to my podcast?"

In his email, the YouTuber stated that he saw Nadella's email on his newsletter subscriber list alerting him that he had tuned into an episode of Patel's podcast. "Would you be interested in coming to my podcast? Previous guests include Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair and IIya Sutskever," he wrote in the email.

To his surprise, Nadella himself responded to the email and shared his eagerness to feature on the podcast. "Hi, Dwarkesh. Your pod is super! I would love to," the Microsoft CEO wrote.

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